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arxiv.orgpaper🛡️ Security

TextSeal2: Distortion-Free LLM Watermarking with Copula Mixing and Memoryless Races

TextSeal2 is a distortion-free LLM text watermark that merges two or more keys into one virtual key and couples it to fresh noise through AutoMark's Gaussian copula. Under speculative decoding it verifies keyed drafts with an extra exponential race, so output matches the target model and acceptance rate is unchanged. On three LLMs at a 10^-3 false-positive rate, it detects 8 to 22 points more 100-token answers than TextSeal.

TextSeal2TextSealAutoMark+2
Gumbel-max schemespeculative decodingGaussian copula+1

AI Security· Added 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

TextSeal2: Distortion-Free LLM Watermarking with Copula Mixing and Memoryless Races

TextSeal2 is a distortion-free watermark for LLM output that keeps its signal under speculative decoding. It merges two or more keys into one virtual key coupled to fresh noise through AutoMark's Gaussian copula, and verifies drafts with an extra exponential race. On three LLMs it detects 8 to 22 points more 100-token answers than TextSeal at a 10^-3 false-positive rate.

LLMspeculative decodingGumbel-max watermarking+1
TextSeal2TextSealAutoMark+2

research, inference· Added 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026

eprint.iacr.orgpaper🛡️ Security

A Quantitative Evaluation of Constant-Time Analysis Tools

AutoBench-CT is a modular benchmark for constant-time analysis tools, with manually verified per-violation ground truth across 64 cryptographic tasks. It scores seven tools on operational performance, detection quality and usability. The authors explain why CT-grind (2010) is still the most used tool, list recurring limitations across tools, and propose a composite pipeline for stronger constant-time guarantees. Accepted at ACSAC 2026.

AutoBench-CTCT-grind
ACSAC

Hardware & RF, AppSec· Added 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

M-PFT: Angular Margin for Calibrated Prompt-Tuning of Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models

M-PFT is an angular-margin method for prompt tuning of vision-language models that fixes base-to-novel dual miscalibration (underconfidence on base classes, overconfidence on novel classes). It adds two losses: minimizing the maximum cosine similarity between tunable class embeddings, and minimizing angular distance to each zero-shot embedding. Tests on 9 prompt-tuning methods and 15 datasets show lower novel-class calibration error at comparable accuracy and negligible overhead.

vision-language modelprompt tuning
arXiv

research, multimodal, training· Added 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

Aligning Medical Vision Language Models at the Capability Boundary with Entropy Adaptive Rubric Grounding

MedCBR is a two-stage alignment framework for medical vision language models. Difficulty Weighted Boundary Preference Optimization (DBPO) trains on counterfactual preference pairs at the model's capability frontier. Entropy Gated Grounded Policy Optimization (EGPO) then applies distilled clinical rubrics according to prediction entropy. It reaches 61.2% average accuracy on six medical benchmarks, with the largest gains on differential diagnosis, and the two stages combine super-additively.

vision-language modelpreference optimizationreinforcement learning
MedCBRDifficulty Weighted Boundary Preference OptimizationEntropy Gated Grounded Policy Optimization+1

research, training, multimodal· Added 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

Statistical Detection of Positional Bias in LLM-Based Recommender Systems: Methodologies and Empirical Evidence

The paper proposes POB-ICM (contingency matrix with Chi-square independence testing) and POB-UNBP (a uniformity null model under permutation-based evaluation) to detect positional bias in top-1, single-turn LLM recommenders. On a RAG product-recommendation testbed with 2000 queries and 20 permutations each (40,000 instances), both methods reject positional independence in all evaluated models. Three metrics quantify the effect, and the bias persists across candidate-set size and temperature. Code is public.

LLMRAG
arXivPOB-ICMPOB-UNBP

research, evals, llm-apps· Added 30 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

Perceiving and Predicting Dynamic Sports: Spatiotemporal Intelligence in Vision Models for Egocentric Tennis Video

This paper presents an annotated egocentric tennis dataset (egocentric video synced with five allocentric views, global positions, contact times, stroke types) and evaluates image encoders, video encoders and vision-language models on seven prediction tasks. Best models reach 0.14 m player and 0.54 m ball localization error and 0.14 s contact-time error. Depth input helps 3D ball localization, and longer histories do not help forecasting. A conditional diffusion model generates whole-body tennis motion in real time.

vision-language modeldiffusion modelTransformer
arXiv

research, multimodal, evals· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

FeatureArc: Benchmarking Coding Agents on Evolving Features

FeatureArc is a benchmark for coding agents on evolving features, built by a pipeline that mines repository histories into multi-stage tasks across four programming languages. It has 73 manually reviewed tasks of 2 to 10 stages, validated with fail-to-pass and pass-to-pass tests. Across 10 agents, pooled success drops from 62.7% at the first stage to 28.5% for the whole feature. Inherited defects appear in 72.9% of failed later stages.

LLM
FeatureArcTencentHunyuan+1

evals, coding-agents, research· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

DCKV: Learned Transform Coding of the Prompt KV Cache in Hybrid Language Models

DCKV is a differentiable codec for the prompt KV cache of hybrid language models, which keep a KV cache only in their few full-attention layers. Transform, quantizer and entropy models (conditioned on prompt tokens and already decoded neighbouring positions) are trained end to end against a frozen model. On Qwen3.5-2B it stores a token in over 55 times fewer bytes than bf16 with at most 1.8 points lost on three long-context benchmarks, and over 100 times fewer with at most 3.6 points lost.

Qwen3.5TransformerLLM
DCKVarXiv

research, inference· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🛡️ Security

What Victims Take Away: Attack Reuse and Defense Revision after Prompt-Injection Attacks

What Victims Take Away is an October 2026 arXiv paper analysing 563,349 Tensor Trust attack records to see how players reuse prompt injections they received. Within a week, targets reused 10.0% of attacks that broke their defense, versus 0.03% of matched attacks. Breaches were followed by defense changes that cut same-family attack success by 24.5 points. Received texts made up 23.2% of successful hijacks. The authors propose that AI security tools describe techniques without disclosing full attack text.

Tensor TrustLLM
prompt injectionpayoff-biased social learningvictim-offender overlap

AI Security· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026

eprint.iacr.orgpaper🛡️ Security

Decision Attacks on Known-Covariance Ring-LWE via Public Gram Determinants

Anis Bkakria's ePrint 2026/2638 gives polynomial-time decision attacks on Known-Covariance Ring-LWE (KCov-RLWE), the assumption Micciancio and Suhl introduced for simulation-secure threshold encryption. The public sample and covariance hint form a bordered Gram matrix whose determinant leaks a residual that differs between real and uniform samples. The attacks cover broad prime-modulus families at ring rank one and transfer to composite moduli with an odd prime divisor. Power-of-two moduli are not covered, and the paper does not break the full threshold-encryption scheme.

Ring-LWE
Known-Covariance Ring-LWEMicciancio and SuhlGram determinant+2

other· Added 26 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

The Patient Is Always Right? Evaluating Sycophancy in Medical Diagnosis with Graded Patient Beliefs

This paper evaluates sycophancy in medical diagnosis across nine AI models. Each model is shown clinical evidence plus a patient's belief in a specific but incorrect condition, with the belief's closeness to the evidence varied. Models adopted the belief 23.2% of the time on average, even for fictional conditions, and 43.0% under a Rare Disease Claimer persona. Medical fine-tuning and larger scale reduced susceptibility.

LLM
arXiv

ai-safety, evals, research· Added 27 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

Detecting and Understanding Ambiguity in Visualizations with Role-Playing Vision Language Model Interpretations

This paper presents a pipeline that uses persona-conditioned vision language models to surface interpretive ambiguity in visualizations. Topic-relevant personas elicit candidate takeaways, and a Target-Pattern-Scope framework lets LLM judges label statement pairs as Compatible, Disjoint or Opposing, which are summarized in an ambiguity profile. The authors benchmark VLMs on chart comprehension per chart type, check labeling against human annotations, and run case studies on public visualizations and a redesign.

vision-language modelLLM
arXiv

research, multimodal, evals· Added 27 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026

eprint.iacr.orgpaper🛡️ Security

Chosen Commitments and Certified Decoding Regions in the Adaptive Threshold Schnorr Attack

This IACR ePrint 2026/2632 paper by Demirtaş and Yayla analyses the Crites–Stewart adaptive forgery attack on threshold Schnorr signatures, which needs one call to a sparse linear search oracle (bounded distance decoding of a scaled Reed–Solomon code). It shows that choosing the commitment coefficient vector does not help much: a wrapper adversary with Q challenges succeeds with probability at most QM/p, even if its solvers decode every witness for free. For the six original (N, τ) pairs, M stays below 2^24, so the bound is under 2^-100 after 2^128 challenges at p = 2^252.

Schnorr signaturesReed–Solomon codesfolded Reed–Solomon codes
Crites and Stewart attackGuruswami–WangAshvinkumar–Habib–Srivastava+2

other· Added 26 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

RAQ-MLA: Role-Aware Quantization for Multi-Head Latent Attention Caches

RAQ-MLA (Role-Aware Quantization for Multi-Head Latent Attention Caches) is a training-free method for quantizing the MLA KV cache. It fits a separate invertible transform to the compressed latent (tuned for attention-weighted value error) and to the positional key (tuned for score perturbation). It reaches about 2.5 bits per element, a 6.5x gain in theoretical KV-cache capacity, with near-lossless reasoning and coding results on four MLA models.

Multi-Head Latent AttentionLLMTransformer
arXiv

research, inference· Added 27 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

Tool-Calling LLM Agents Under Realistic MCP Faults: Scale Does Not Purchase Fault Tolerance

MCP-Injector is a protocol-aware fault-injection middleware for Model Context Protocol tool calls, with permanent, transient and intermittent faults on seedable schedules. Its fault model comes from 57,240 issue and PR threads across 1,774 open-source MCP repositories. In a 1,350-cell experiment, faults cut task-completion score by 60% (8.08 to 3.23 of 10), and the 120B gpt-oss model was no more resilient than the 20B. Agent stacks differed in how well they absorbed faults.

Model Context ProtocolOpenAI Agents SDKLangChain+2
MCP-Injectorgpt-oss-120bOpenAI

mcp, evals, agents, research· Added 26 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026

eprint.iacr.orgpaper🛡️ Security

For Thirty Pieces of Silver: Overcoming Non-IID via ZKP Sample-Level Auditing and Forcing Attackers into Traitors in Federated Learning

Preprint (IACR ePrint 2026/2611) proposing a federated learning defense that replaces gradient detection with zero-knowledge-proof sample-level audits of client datasets. A staking mechanism forces attackers to train on discovered poisoned samples with flipped labels, producing counter-gradients that remove the backdoor without knowing the trigger. ZKP commitments lock the training data, which blocks adaptive attacks and gradient tampering. On CIFAR-10 under Dir(0.1) non-IID, it holds attack success rate below 6% against distributed backdoor and edge-case attacks.

distributed backdoor attackedge-case attackadaptive attack+3

AI Security· Added 24 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

Semantically Rich, Metrically Affect-Blind: A Geometric Blind Spot in Modern Text Embedders

Sentiment-Injected Sentence Embeddings (SISE) addresses a finding across eleven frozen text encoders (2021 to 2026): linear probes recover sentence polarity at up to 91.3% accuracy, but cosine similarity separates polarity by only 0.003-0.064. A small supervised-contrastive head (0.13M-0.69M parameters) trained on CPU raises retrieval MAP by up to 26 points, but the 128-d head loses 38-41 STS-B Spearman points. The paper also releases the Attribute Alignment Gap diagnostic.

Qwen3RAG
Qwen3-Embedding-4BJina-v5SISE+3

research, llm-apps· Added 26 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026

huggingface.copaper🧠 AI

Cache Engineering for Agents (AKV)

AKV introduces cache engineering, which lets LLM agents control their active KV cache with drop (exclude cache from future attention) and repos (adjust retained keys' position encodings) without editing the trajectory or re-prefilling. The AKV serving engine keeps a stateless API while managing stateful cache reuse, eviction and restoration. A tool-response rolling-drop policy raised benchmark scores by 1.7 points and cut cost 27.7% versus threshold-triggered summarization.

LLMTransformerGitHub+1
AKV

inference, agents, research· Added 23 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

Reproducible Evaluation as the Substrate for Safe Prompt Compression in Production Agents

This paper presents an offline evaluation harness for a production merchant-facing conversational agent. It stays reproducible when live backend data changes and can be regenerated when it goes stale. Used as the fitness function for GEPA prompt optimization under a correctness gate against reward hacking, it shrinks the full prompt surface by 3.5-7.6% without losing held-out correctness, across three subject-model families.

GEPALLM
arXiv

evals, prompting, agents· Added 26 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

Sensorimotor Alignment: A Platonic Proxy for Embodied Policy Success

Sensorimotor Alignment (S^2) is a training-free offline metric that measures how well an embodied model's sensory representation aligns with the geometry of physical motion. It extends the Platonic Representation Hypothesis to motion trajectories. S^2 correlates positively with downstream robot task success across embodied model families, helps pick promising VLM backbones before fine-tuning into VLAs, and explains behaviours seen in VLAs and world action models.

vision-language modelvision-language-action modelworld action model
Sensorimotor AlignmentPlatonic Representation HypothesisarXiv

research, evals, multimodal· Added 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

BeNice! Closing Looping's Inference-Memory Gap via KV-Sharing

BeNice! is a post-training method for looped language models that broadcasts the final recurrence's KV-cache into the first recurrence, so one cache can serve all recurrences. It follows a first stage that uses stochastic depth in pretraining to induce contractive residual dynamics. It matches standard finetuning's unshared validation perplexity and composes with multi-latent attention, Kimi delta attention and fp8, mxfp8 and nvfp4 cache quantization. In simulated low-memory long-context inference it raises cache hit rates by up to 31.4% and throughput by up to 23.6%, and cuts p90 time-to-first-token by up to 83.6%.

Transformermulti-latent attentionKimi delta attention+3
BeNice!arXiv

research, inference, training· Added 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

DuoCook: An Overcooked-Inspired Benchmark for Visual Planning and Coordination

DuoCook is an Overcooked-inspired benchmark in which one vision-language model controls two cooks from top-down views in Unreal Engine environments built with coding agents. It has 20 maps in five categories covering equipment contention, changing terrain and handoff dependencies. Four VLMs were compared; the best, gpt-6-astra, reached 26.2% mean order completion. A notebook memory ablation had mixed effects: positive for Claude and Qwen, negative for GPT and Gemini.

Unreal Enginevision-language model
DuoCookGPT-6 AstraClaude+4

evals, agents, multimodal· Added 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026

eprint.iacr.orgpaper🛡️ Security

Linear Cryptanalysis of TFHE-Friendly Cipher FRAST in the Average Key Setting

Linear cryptanalysis of FRAST, a TFHE-friendly stream cipher, in the average key setting. It fixes the false-positive problem left open in the earlier attack by Bak et al., showing key differences fall into five indistinguishable classes per round. The Contract algorithm recovers the master key for 10 rounds and, on weak keys of density 2^-11.8 to 2^-5.4, reaches full FRAST within the claimed security.

FRASTTFHE
Contract algorithmBak et al.linear cryptanalysis+1

other· Added 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

Sage-A1.5: From Long-Horizon Execution to Scientific Exploration with Capability Composition

Sage-A1.5 is a 35B Mixture-of-Experts agentic model that builds on Sage-A1 for long-horizon problem solving. It adds three capabilities: orchestration with parallel subagents in isolated contexts, verification through progress checking, evidence validation and strategy revision, and open scientific discovery with inspectable research artifacts. The report shows them on complex agentic tasks and multidisciplinary science applications. The page gives only the abstract, no benchmark numbers.

Mixture of ExpertsLLM
Sage-A1.5Sage-A1arXiv

research, agents, models· Added 22 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🧠 AI

Cache Engineering for Agents

Cache Engineering for Agents proposes letting LLM agents control their active KV cache directly, using a drop operation to exclude cache from attention and repos to adjust retained keys' position encodings, without editing the trajectory or re-prefilling. The authors build the AKV serving engine to handle history-dependent cache states. A tool-response rolling-drop policy raises average benchmark scores by 1.7 points and cuts cost by 27.7% against threshold-triggered summarization. AKV gives up to 1.2x output throughput and 1.5x faster P95 latency.

LLMAKV
arXiv

research, inference, agents· Added 22 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026

eprint.iacr.orgpaper🛡️ Security

A Spectral Theory of Local-to-Global Leakage

A Spectral Theory of Local-to-Global Leakage is an IACR ePrint paper (2026/2571) by Rei Ueno on additive secret sharing over finite abelian groups. It gives an exact leakage decomposition into local leakage magnitude and spectral alignment across shares. Two channels with identical local mutual information can have exponentially different global leakage. Automorphism-weighted sharing can cancel leakage perfectly with finitely many shares, which ordinary additive sharing cannot do.

Rei UenoMöbius inversion

Hardware & RF· Added 21 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🛡️ Security

Context-Aware Prompt Injection Detection via Small Language Models in RAG Pipelines: nokast-secureRAG

nokast-secureRAG is a roughly 0.5B-parameter small language model that works as a semantic firewall between retrieval and generation in local RAG systems. It classifies each query and context pair as safe, suspicious or malicious. It reaches 0.994 recall at a 0.026 false-positive rate in-distribution, beating Llama Guard 3 1B and Prompt-Guard-86M (0.900 recall, 0.690 FPR). Recall on PoisonedRAG falls to near zero, and single-request latency is 293-404 ms.

Llama Guard 3LLM
indirect prompt injectionretrieval poisoningPoisonedRAG+2

AI Security· Added 22 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026

eprint.iacr.orgpaper🛡️ Security

Fault-Induced Nonce Repetition in Threshold Lattice Signatures: A Reveal-Structure Criterion, Cross-Scheme Analysis, and Detection Boundaries

Fault-Induced Nonce Repetition in Threshold Lattice Signatures is an ePrint paper (2026/2566, Yulong Meng) showing that faulting t devices in a t-of-n threshold ML-DSA deployment recovers the full signing secret, verified on Mithril with exact recovery in 96/96 scan groups. It gives a reveal-structure criterion across Quorus, TALUS and Trilithium, a threshold law m* = (ℓ-1)N+⌈N/K⌉ for imperfect faults, and two-layer transcript detection (305/305 hits, no false positives).

ML-DSA
MithrilQuorusTALUS+7

Hardware & RF· Added 21 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026

arxiv.orgpaper🛡️ Security

Raise or Check? Predicting the Necessity of Additional Fuzzing for Continuous Fuzzing

RAISE (Risk-Aware Intensive Supplemental Execution Framework) is a just-in-time framework that predicts which project-days introduce a vulnerability, to decide where to spend extra fuzzing. The dataset joins OSV vulnerability-introducing commits with OSS-Fuzz coverage data for 15 C/C++ projects (15,210 project-days, 347 positive). A Random Forest using VCCFinder static features plus fuzzing features reaches ROC-AUC 0.74. In a simulation over 968 vulnerabilities, Simple-Regression needed 91.60 extra fuzzing sessions per detected vulnerability, against 171.89 for the Median heuristic.

OSS-FuzzOSVC
RAISEVCCFinderPatchCoverage+1

AppSec· Added 22 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026

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